Kennen with Aphelios
How to Synergize Kennen and Aphelios
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Kennen Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Aphelios
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Kennen Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is an ally to Aphelios, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Aphelios doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Aphelios on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Kennen. By locking into the same team as Kennen, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Kennen and Aphelios that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kennen and Aphelios together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Kennen and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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